Update on S S 30

 
We continue to receive a lot of inquiries about the S&S 30 asking about the status regarding production. We are pleased to report that the hull tooling is complete and the deck tooling is nearing completion as can be seen by the image above. We are still targeting having a boat on the water in time for the fall boat shows.

For plans, additional images, specifications and project history, please visit the Sparkman & Stephens 30 website at www.sparkmanstephens.com/ss30.  Also multiple postings can be found within these pages by doing a search for S&S 30 in the search field above.

Offered at $149,000, sail away price.

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Obtaining Plans for Your S S Boat

All plans for boats designed by Sparkman & Stephens from design numbers 1 - 2,600 are in storage at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. They are archived in a purpose built, museum quality building that protects them from fluctuations in temperature and humidity and from fire.

Designs generated after design number 2,600 were generally done using CAD (computer aided design) and are kept on our file server.

Plans for designs 1 - 2,600 must be obtained from Mystic Seaport Museum. To obtain plans for your boat please click here to access the Mystic Seaport webpage regarding the S&S plan collection which explains the process, the costs involved and contact information. You are welcome to email us to obtain a list of available plans for your boat. Please click here to email us.

We still maintain the intellectual property on all of the plans in the collection but Mystic Seaport handles any actual plan reproduction. For information on yacht construction using existing designs and royalty payments please click here.

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Design 2062 FG3 LeCompte S S 40

We have made mention of this design before. There are at least 6 different iterations of this one-tonner design built in numerous countries and in both wood and fiberglass. This particular version was a fiberglass production model built by LeCompte-Holland of Vianen, Holland. Production began in 1971. We have no record of how many boats were built by LeCompte. LeCompte later modified the design and the model was then called the ALC40.

Here are the plans.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 39-7"
LWL 29-7"
Beam 11-9"
Draft 6-6"
Displacement 17,764 lbs
Ballast 7,530 lbs
Sail Area 657 sq ft

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1959 C2 S S 34 by Swarbrick

We have discussed the S&S 34 before and also the model licensed for sale in the United States, the Palmer Johnson 34.  We dont know exactly how many of these popular boats have been built, only that in the first year of production at Winfield & Partners (later known as Aqua Fibre), 39 contracts were signed.

The boat shown here is yet another version, built by Swarbrick of Western Australia and designated as Sparkman & Stephens design #1959-C2.  The images shown are of a launch sequence of a new boat from the early 1980s.  We dont know exactly how many were built by Swarbrick at that time either.

Here is an interesting article from the Italian magazine Yachting Quarterly about the S&S 34 design in general, in Olin Stephens own words.

Any way, back to Swarbrick.  Did you know these boat are again in production and available from Swarbrick?  Heres a brief article about the subject from Cruising World magazine.  As always please double click for zoom.

More information can be obtained from the builders website by clicking here.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 33-6"
LWL 24-2"
Beam 10-1"
Draft 5-10"

Displacement 9,195 lbs

Ballast 4,800 lbs

Sail Area 484 sq ft

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